The Delta independent., 1887-05-24
Rioting in Toronto.

TORONTO, Ont, May 1S.-The incur
sion of Mr.. OBrien, the Irish agitator,
seems to have changed the whole face of
Canadian politics, and it is thought it will
have an important bearing on the future of
| parties and policies in the Dominion. The
| Catholics who spoke regretfuiy in regard
to the Fenian invasion of twenty years ago
| do not speak SO now, and the Orangemen
who talked in determined manner about
"O'Brien's INVASION" say that If he at
tempted to speak here again he would
probably pay the penalty with his life.
At 80 o'clock last evening President j.
A. Muligan, of the local branch of the
League, called at the hotel and asked Mr..
O'Brien to go out and have walk.
D. P. Cahill, Dennis Kilbride, the evicted
tenant. and J. n. Wall, the special cores
pondent of the New York Tribune, were
present and suggested that it would not be
prudent to venture out, as the darkness had
fallen and crowd of about 200 rowdies had
gathered around the hotel, Kissing, hooting
and groaning. Mr.. O'Brien, however per-
sisted in going. The crowd grew in num-
bers and turbulence, and surged up to the
very spot where Mr.. O'Brien and others
were standing. They groaned and hissed
into Mr.. O'Brien's face such cries as Away
traitor, Down with the dynamiters," and
"God save the Queen" A riot seemed i'm
minent as the Orangemen were armed with
stout sticks just as they were at the meet
ing in the Queens Park.
They came up to Mr.. O'Brien as he strobe
along York street and pushed against him,
making several attempts to strike him on
the head with their sticks. He lodged the
blows, however, and his friends rallied
around him, but they were as one to fifty.
Two policemen stood near, but thev made
no effort to disperse the mob. AS the party
turned into Bay street Mr.. Cahill had his hat
knocked off by stone.
Now the Orangemen began their real at
tack, for Bay street furnished good oppor-
tunity, being covered almost entirely with
broken bricks and cobble-stone Mr..
O'Brien had on tall hat, which furnished
a good target. Wall was on his right and
Kilbride and Mulligan were on his left.
Look out, O'Brienr' shouted Wall, '.the
stones are coming. It's Belfast over
again.
"lts all right" replied O'Brien; sit
US alone"
As he spoke voley of bricks and cob
ble-stones came flying from the Orange
men, missing the heads but knocking the
plastering off the adjacent walls. Shouts of
"To hell with the Poper' xiii the
traitor" and so on, rose high above the
din. The O'Brien party were still on the
sidewalk and the Orangemen were throng-
ing the street. d. I. Kellogg, the re-
porter of the New York Sun, now rushed
behind O'Brien, and was about to warn
him when a stone struck O'Brien's hat and
knocked ii off.
O'B-ien stopped his head and Wall, who
was standing by his side. lifted his head to
look in the direction whence the missiles
came, when a huge stone struck him on the
side of the head and tumbled him heels
over lead. He was carried to drug store,
where his wounds were dressed. O'Brien
attempted to take refuge in laundry, and
failing in that he rushed into bicycle
store adjoining. A volley Of stones shat
tered the windows and the mob burst into
the store acting like demons and showered
missiles in the direction in which O'Brien
was. Some ladies and old women screamed
and tainted, while the mob tumbed pell-
nell over the machinery, smashing them
one against the other in their savage fury
and amid cries of XIII the traitorsr
Hang himr' '.Lansdowne forever"'
O'Brien, however, was safely led away
by an officer, and he reached his hotel in
safety. Cahill was knocked down and he
received two cuts, and more than a score Of
other persons were injured. The mob
now seemed satiated.
Mr. O'Brien said to an Associated Press
representative: "Lansdowne has now
done his worst. His policemen absolutely
taken refuge in a bicycle shop we would
have been killed"